Nikki Diogou

I am a bioacoustician and oceanographer; in my work I use passive acoustic recordings to investigate marine mammal presence in remote and inaccessible locations and answer ecological questions. My postdoctoral research is a collaboration between the Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, Stan Dosso’s Lab, and the Juanes Lab aiming to assess spatiotemporal patterns of bowhead presence and underwater noise in the Western Canadian Arctic. Using year-round recordings from a suite of acoustic stations in the Amundsen Gulf, I am interested in understanding and quantifying how bowheads, as well as other Arctic marine mammal species, distribution and movements may be influenced by climate change, oceanographic shifts, and anthropogenic noise. I am passionate about the world oceans and seas and their conservation is the major driver for my science.​​

Nora Carlson

​I am a behavioural ecologist that focuses on animal communication and predator-prey relationships. Although my introduction to science and bioacoustics was in the Salish Sea, since then my research has focused primarily on birds (Paridae sp., starlings, and sociable weavers) and how they communicate with one another about predators, how they use vocalisations to coordinate group behaviour, and how anthropogenic noise may be impacting how they do this. I am very excited to be expanding my focus to include fish, as I believe that there are many behavioural and ecological parallels between fish and birds, and hope to gain a better understanding of where these similarities lie. My current postdoctoral research is a collaboration between ECCC and the Juanes Lab and focuses on how anthropogenic noise impacts forage fish behaviour (sand lance and herring) in the short and long term and how these behavioural changes will alter their availability as prey to their marine avian predators (rhinoceros auklet and marbled murrelet). I am particularly interested in understanding the longer-term effects and repercussions on anthropogenic noise on species’ life histories and on multiple levels on interspecific interaction.​